Hypervisor

Host OS

Guest OS

Type of Hypervisor

Microsoft Hyper-V

Windows 2008 w/Hyper-v Role, Windows Hyper-V Server

Windows, SUSE

1

KVM

Linux

Linux, Windows

1 - 2

Xen

Linux, Solaris, NetBSD

BSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows

1

VMware ESX

None-bare-metal

Window, Linux, Novell, Netware, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD

1